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June 2, 2008 7:36 AM PDT

Now *you* can throw eggs at Steve Ballmer

by Matt Asay
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It was bound to happen. Following the assault on Steve Ballmer recently at a Hungarian university, now you, too, can throw eggs at the industry's most lovable CEO. Just make sure that you get some work done today, too.

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay.
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Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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